Horrible, but still not as bad as exploring it as a girl 🤢 I don’t miss being a kid
I can’t even imagine. I see so much misogyny on some lemmy comms.
Honestly, you sadly get used to it - along with, uh, degeneracy directed at you.
Yep I get u. As a disabled person I eventually got used to the inevitable ableism on social media, lemmy is “better” than reddit or X, but it’s still shit.
What if we all pretended to be women because such harassment to a sufficiently wide audience would be extremely isolating
Wait, there’s women on the internet?!
I opened this post knowing 100% that I’d find this comment.
The internet
Where men are men
Where women are men
Where kids are FBI
—1990s USEnet era adage
Yes, but weirdly, none of us play MMOs.
I know a few who play as male characters to avoid attention.
I would play as male characters and then dye their armor pink and flirt relentlessly with the boys. It was fun, especially when you’d get on teamspeak with them after playing together for weeks and they’d be like “wait you’re a girl?”
